"
"He may go so fast that he'll get to friends before we harness him!"
warned Jimmie. "Then we couldn't get him at all, but might, instead,
get geezled ourselves."
"There seems to be a little sense left in that head of yours," Frank
laughed, "even if your friends do think it is solid bone! So we'd
better skip along and take him under our protection before we have an
army to fight. Say, but won't he take a tumble to himself when he
finds himself stuck up by two boys?"
Not withstanding their half-humorous talk concerning what they were
about to do, the boys both realized that they were facing a serious
situation. They had every confidence in Ned's judgment, still they
had no knowledge of Bradley which seemed to them to warrant the bold
step they were about to take.
Jimmie was under the impression that Bradley belonged to the coterie
which had taken him prisoner, but he had no proof of it. Bradley had
been, apparently, accepted by Mrs. Mary Brady, and that seemed a good
recommend for him. Still, there were the instructions, and they were
resolved to carry them out. Neither expressed to the other his secret
thought on the subject.
"Where are we going to hide him, after we take him?" asked Jimmie,
after a time, during which the lads had managed by hard work to
decrease the distance between themselves and Bradley.
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